Rail-joint.



J. N. ADAMS.

RAIL JOINT.

N FILED MA APPLICATI .2, 1915. 1 ,1 99, 1 4:6 Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

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JEROME N. ADAMS, 0F MALVERN, ARKANSAS.

RAIL-JOINT.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. cc, 1916.

Application filed March 2, 1915. Serial No. 11,472.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JEROME N. Animus, a citizen of the United States, residing at Malvern, in the county of Hot Spring and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ftail- Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rail joints, the

primary object being to eliminate the use of fish plates, etc., through the medium of which, the proximate ends of the rails are usually held in place.

Another object of the invention is to complementally reduce the proximate ends of the rails, to permit sliding engagement of the rails for providing a continuous tread, without the instrumentality of hoisting mechanism, etc.

Other objects as well as the nature, characteristic features and scope of my invention will be more readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims forming a part of this specification.

' Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of one of the rail sections constructed in accordance with my invention, Fig. 2 is a similar view of the complemental section, and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side elevational view of the conjoined sections.

In the drawings wherein is illustrated the preferred embodiment of this invention, a pair of sections 5 and 6 are provided. Each of the sections 5 and 6 is provided with a head 7, web 8 and base flange 9, which may be of the usual or any desired configuration except at the terminals of each section. The terminals of each section, are of course, especially formed, in order to provide the peculiar formation of joint hereinafter described.

The section 5 of the rail has a portion of the lower end of its web removed to provide an inclined face 10, which tapers from one of the terminals of said section, toward the opposite terminal, subsequently issuing in the lower edge of the web, and meeting the inclined face 11 of the base flange of said section. Abutments 12 extend laterally from the opposite sides of the web, at approximately the jointure of the inclined face 11 and. the inclined face 10, and are of the rail sections.

an appreciable thickness so as to preclude possibility of mutilation when slidably engaged with the opposite section as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

The section 6, has its base flange extended considerably beyond th terminal of the head 7 and web 8 thereof and conforms to the configuration of the section 5. The free terminal of the base flange 9 is inclined as indicated at 13 toward its free end, so as to provide an edge 1% on its terminal, to facilitate engagement of the sections 5 and (3 without the instrumentality of any means other than those necessary for exerting pressure upon the sections so as to advance the same toward each other. A pair of splice bars 15 extend outwardly from the web 8, and are offset from the latter so as .will be. appreciated that lateral displacement of the rails is positively precluded, that is, independent lateral displacement of Furthermore, the web' 8 of the section 5 is provided with a plurality of openings 16 therein, which are adapted to register with openings 17 in the splice bars 15, said openings being adapted to receive bolts 18 therein, so as to positively retain the rail sections from displacement.

In use therefore, it is seen that the sections 5 and 6 are engageable by merely advancing the same toward each other so as to engage the web 8 of the section 5 between the splice bars 15, the head 7 of the section 5, being adapted to rest upon the Cir Having thus fully described my invention What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. i1 rail joint comprising a plurality of rail sections having portions of the meeting ends at their base flanges cut away to pro-- vide complementary flat surfaces adapted to be superposed one upon the other, said surfaces inclining at an angle from the juncture of the rail Webs and base flanges and Widening out toward their bases to provide enlarged bearing surfaces, splice bars carried at one end of each section and projecting be yond the inclined surface thereof, and the base flanges of the adjacent section terminating abruptly to provide abutment means for said splice bars.

2. A rail joint comprising a plurality of raii sections having their base flanges inclined to provide complemental meeting faces, one of said sections having the lower edge of its web portion inc-lined and meeting with the inclined surface of the base flange to form an inclined bearing surface tapering 'fLUlHJfS base, the other of said sections having' a portion of its tread and Web portion removed to provide a seat for the inclined surface of the first section, and means carried by the second section and supported.

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upon the inclined surface thereof for engaging and retaining the Web of the firstsection,

3. In a rail joint, the combination With a rail section having a, portion thereof 'removed to provide a flat surface extending beyond the Web of said section and inclining at an angle from the juncture of the rail Web and base flange thereof, of splice'bars carried by said section on opposite sides of said rail Web and forming a continuation of the latter and aineetin rail ada )lZGCl to be engaged by said splice-bars and having a portion of its Web and base flange removed to provide an inclined flat surface complementary to the surface of the first section,

said flat surfaces adapted'tobe superposed one upon. the other and Widening toward their bases to provide greater bearing: surfaces, one of the surfaces terminating-ab ruptly adjacent the juncture of the base flange and rail Web to provide an abutment for limiting the movement of the splice bars Washington, D. G. 

